First time, connecting Win 10 and Mint 18: want to read files from Win

[alquimista]

Hi,
I have my desktop running Mint 18 Cinnamon, and a laptop running Win 10. I need to read files from a shared directory I have in Win 10. Following tutorials, I setup to share this directory in Win 10 (named "test"), under "Read" permissions for "Everyone".

Then, in Mint's command prompt, this is the command line:

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sudo mount -t cifs -o username=WindowsUser //LAPTOP-XXXX/test /home/guillermo/shared

Where "WindowsUser "is the actual Administrator user in Windows, and "LAPTOP-XXXX" is the name of the Win 10 Laptop. "Test" is the directory I created in Win 10

The command seems to be executed correctly; I'm asked for the password . After typing it, I get:

mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Checking the log, I get this:

Nov 19 16:56:02 guillermo-Renew kernel: [ 3697.677674] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
Nov 19 16:56:02 guillermo-Renew kernel: [ 3697.677897] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115

Any ideas?

[altair4]

First thing I would check is to see if this is a name resolution problem.

Can you ping the machine by that name:

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ping -c3 LAPTOP-XXXX

Can you mount the share by ip address - for example:

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sudo mount -t cifs -o username=WindowsUser //192.168.0.100/test /home/guillermo/shared

Side note: Win10 can now speak mDNS so if this is a name resolution issue you can access it that way LAPTOP-XXXX.local/test but you need to enable that in Win10: Win10, Linux, mDNS, and Samba File Sharing